Metropolitan Macarius (,

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: Mykola Ivanovych Maletych, ) (b. 1 October 1944) is a bishop of the

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(OCU) and a permanent member of the Standing Holy Synod of the OCU. His full title is His Eminence Macarius, Metropolitan of Lviv. Prior to the Unification Council in December 2018, he was the Primate of the

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(UAOC), a jurisdiction that did not have recognition on the part of other

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es; he was restored to full ecclesiastical communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople by the decision of the Holy Synod of the

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in October 2018. However, this has been accepted only by the churches of Alexandria, Greece, and in part Cyprus.

Biography

In 1973 and then again in 1974, he tried and failed to enroll at the Odesa Theological Seminary of the

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(ROC). On 10 August 1975, he was ordained a priest within the jurisdiction of the ROC. He served mainly in Ukraine and the Rostov region. In 1982, he finished the

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(ROC). In 1989, he resigned from the canonical

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and became associated with the schismatic

(UAOC). From November 1996, he was a governing bishop of the Lviv diocese of the UAOC and then he also took over jurisdiction over the Volyn dioceses. In 2011, Makary was raised to the dignity of the Metropolitan of Lviv. Following the death of the Primate of the UAOC, Metropolitan

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, in February 2015, Makary was elected Locum Tenens of the Metropolitan Throne of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. On 4 June 2015, he was elected as Metropolitan and the new Primate of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church. At the Unification Council in

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on 15 December 2018, Metropolitan Macarius, along with the bishops, priests, and laity of the UAOC, joined the OCU, a new, canonical ecclesiastical body that was in January 2019 granted

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by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. He went on to become a permanent member of the Standing Holy Synod of the OCU. On 5 January 2020, he headed the delegation of the OCU to the residence of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in Istanbul and concelebrate the Divine Liturgy with Patriarch

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marking the first anniversary of the OCU's autocephaly. He formally invited Patriarch Bartholomew on behalf of the Primate of the OCU, Epiphanius, to visit

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References

External links

Митрополит Львівський Макарій
Biography on the official web site of the Lviv diocese Macarius of Lviv Clergy from Lviv Oblast Macarius of Lviv Living people Recipients of the Honorary Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Bishops of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine {{Ukraine-reli-bio-stub